Rutgers University

On a stairwell in her Eastport home, Susan Johnson hung a weathered, vintage, four-paned window sash. Framed behind each pane is a notecard-sized print of iconic Annapolis rooftops: the steeples of St. Mary's and St. Anne's churches, and the domes of the Naval Academy Chapel and the Maryland State House. The scenes were painted by Eastport artist Merrilynne Hendrickson. "I can see each of these from my house," said Johnson. It was a long path to Annapolis for Johnson, an executive in ExxonMobil's fuels, lubes and specialty marketing organization. She was interviewed for a job with Mobil's toxicology laboratory as she was leaving her college graduation...

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